2i 4 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



/Eschna juncea, L. Scotston Moor and Banchory, common. 



AGRIONID^E. 



Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Sulz. Banchory and Whitestripes, common. 

 Ischnura elegans, Lind. Scotston and Invercannie, common. 

 Enallagma cyathigerum, Charp. Bishop Loch, common. 

 Lestes sponsa, Hans. Bishop Loch, scarce, July. 



[Lists of insects, chiefly relating to Aberdeenshire, are 

 given in MacGillivray's "Natural History of Deeside," 1855, 

 and in Trail's 'Entomology of Dee' ("Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. of Aberdeen," 1878). A long list of Diptera, by Vice, 

 appeared in the "Scottish Naturalist" for 1883, and a list 

 of Lepidoptera, by Reid, was published in 1893. The Rev. 

 E. N. Bloomfield tells me that Helophilus lunulatus should 

 have been omitted from the list of Diptera in the present 

 paper. W. E.] 



CHERNETIDEA OR FALSE SCORPIONS OF 

 WEST LOTHIAN. 



By ROBERT GODFREY, M.A. 



OF our nine Scottish species of Chernetidea, three of which 

 are recorded for the first time in the present number of the 

 " Annals," all but one, Roncus cainbridgii, L. Koch, occur 

 within the Forth area, and of these eight Forth species five 

 have been taken in West Lothian. Small as this number 

 may be, it is not surpassed, so far as present records show, 

 by the list from any other Scottish county. 



Chthonins rayi, L. Koch. In June last I received from Mr. 

 Wm. Evans an adult example of this species taken by him at Culross, 

 in the hope that I might find it at Bo'ness, and within a few days 

 of receiving it I was successful in finding the creature at Dykenook, 

 Kinneil, on the south side of the Forth, almost directly opposite the 

 spot where he had taken specimens in April. My specimen, taken 

 24th June, was among wet, loose earth, and very immature. The 

 abdomen was black, and the cephalothorax white with a greenish 



